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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463162503321

Autore

Edmond Murray <1949->

Titolo

Walls to kick and hills to sing from : a comedy with interruptions / / Murray Edmond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, N.Z. : , : Auckland University Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-77558-691-X

1-86940-601-X

1-77558-238-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (107 p.)

Disciplina

NZ821.2

Soggetti

New Zealand poetry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Epigraph; Table of Contents; 1 : Exposition; Setting the seal on NZ poetry; Nice hollow you've got; The passing of the forest; A social and poetic chorus; A ballad dreaming of home ...; Tender validation; The goat in Auckland; Ecstasy: a short film; 2 : Complication; Suburban nature morte; Album of the hour; A translation of one of the sonnets of the importunate; This one that one; Miniature; 3 : Revelation; Leaping Malinowski; The animals of the bed; Folk song; Galah; Rhapsody in pink; Old Good Friday; Whose say-so says so?; Never enough; That afternoon; 4 : Peripety

The first of the firstLast caravanserai; A name; The ballad of incommensurate space; You all do know this mantle; Of the nature of nature; 5 : Catastrophe; Small interior; Man alone; The Borgesian instance; How the rats of knowledge stayed on board to see the show; 18/4/1986 - 18/4/2006; 6 : Dénouement; Four little new year songs; Narrow roads to the east; Global whispers: a chorus; The Gates of Paradise; Notes; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

Walls to Kick and Hills to Sing From: A Comedy with Interruptions is a new poetry collection from Murray Edmond. Arranged in six acts, ?Exposition', ?Complication', ?Revelation', ?Peripety', ?Catastrophe' and ?



Denouement', it merrily experiments with voice and performance, including, in various forms, monologues, dialogues, choruses, songs, scene sets and storyboards. Edmond writes that ?there isn't a poem which couldn't have been otherwise / than it is', and in his poems form is aptly married to content. Language plays a starring role ? ?lobal glooming', ?mobile grooming', ?focal warping